You have residences on two shorelines? Damn.Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
I'd been on the fence but the NEWEST science tips me back to the no global warming side. You guys probably don't follow this stuff as much as I do-no surprise given that my home in SoFla is a half block off the ocean and my condo in Chicago is literally on the lake without even a beach separating us from the water. There's been a couple of studies released in the past month, one by Tom Knutson and the other a series of comments by hurricane guru William Gray. Knutson who had been in the global warming camp says Hurricanes aren't linked to warming waters and Gray says global warming is severely exagerated.
Empirically I've been skeptical of warming for a few reasons. 1. Chicago is having it's least warm decade in history. Secondly if polar ice caps ect were truly melting one would certainly expect shoreline erosion. I own two properties within yards of two major American shorelines and I see zilch in terms of erosion. Quite different from the 70's when Chicago was routinely flooded by high tides and homes in Michigan were tumbling into the encroaching lake.
I think your observation, while interesting, is anecdotal and hardly conclusive. As for your reference to Knutson, I don't think it's as simple as all that:
http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52549/study-predicts-more-intense-but-fewer-hurricanes
And then, of course:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2007/2007-02-07-10.asp
As for Gray, well...
http://www.logicalscience.com/skeptics/Gray.html
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/gray-on-agw/